[HISTORY: Adopted by the Board of Trustees of the Village of Horseheads
8-7-1975 as L.L. No. 3-1975. Amendments noted where applicable.]
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No local law shall be adopted by the Board of Trustees
until a public hearing thereon has been held before the Board of Trustees
at a place appointed, within the village, which is reasonably accessible and
at a reasonable time so as to afford an opportunity for the public to be heard.
The public hearing shall be held not less than three (3) days after
public notice of the time, place and subject matter is given by the Village
Clerk by causing a summary of the proposed local law to be published in the
official or designated newspaper of the village. Proof of publication of such
notice of a public hearing shall be filed in the office of the Village Clerk.
Upon passage of a local law, the Village Clerk shall record in the minutes
the names of the members of the Board of Trustees present and their respective
votes.
Only a member of the Village Board of Trustees may introduce a proposed
local law. No such local law shall be passed until it shall have been in its
final form and either upon the desks of the Trustees at least seven (7) days,
exclusive of Sundays, prior to its passage, or mailed to each Trustee in a
postpaid, properly addressed and sealed envelope in a post office or box of
the United States Postal Service within the Village of Horseheads at least
ten (10) days, exclusive of Sundays, prior to its passage, unless the Village
Manager shall have certified as to the necessity for immediate passage of
the local law and it being passed by the affirmative vote of at least two-thirds
(Â 2/3) of the entire Board of Trustees.
No local law shall be passed except by at least the affirmative vote
of a majority of the total number of the Board of Trustees, i.e., three (3)
members, unless otherwise required by law.
Unless otherwise specifically provided, an adopted local law shall become
effective twenty (20) days after adoption or upon filing with the Secretary
of State, whichever is sooner. In the case of a local law which is subject
to a mandatory referendum, such local law shall be filed and become effective
within five (5) days after its approval by the electors. Where such local
law is subject to a permissive referendum and the petition requesting a referendum
is filed, it shall become effective in the same manner as a local law subject
to a mandatory referendum; however, where the proposed local law is subject
to a permissive referendum and no petition is filed requesting the referendum,
the local law shall be effective five (5) days after the time for filing of
such petition shall have expired.
Within twenty (20) days after a local law shall finally have been adopted,
the Village Clerk shall file one (1) certified copy thereof in his or her
office and one (1) certified copy with the Secretary of State.
